CoffeeMug:Clash City Farker: It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.

I haven't read the books and so don't know what the Kessel Run actually is (don't think they explained it in the movies?), but "parsecs" always bothered me. I guessed it might be an asteroid field and he made the run the straightest of anyone...

That is the standard excuse, that he had to go through difficult space and used the shortest (and most dangerous) route. But I will put money on someone screwed up and assumed "parsec" was a unit of time.

"Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis sentenced to 270 days in jail" - I feel it may be more intellectually stimulating than to read the same "mistaken quote" article over again.

Yeah, that was entertaining, and not just for schadenfreude reasons:

After he was convicted, Francis lashed out at the jury in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, shouting, "I want that jury to know that each and every one of you are mentally f---ing retarded and you should be euthanized because, as Darwin said, you have naturally selected yourself."

He later apologized for his tirade. "I deeply regret the remarks attributed to me in the interview with The Hollywood Reporter," he said.

It's not really misquoted as it is grammatically awkward if quoted verbatim afterward as a 3rd person. In the movies those are typically exchanges among two or more individuals however when someone quotes the lines afterward it's usually done in 1st person narrative so it would be funny to say 'No, I am your father' or 'Do I feel lucky punk, yeah do you?'

People within earshot would think you're conversing with yourself because you are!